The government shutdown coincides with the arrival of Halloween in the Witch City.

Salem's National Park Visitor Center was closed, just when huge crowds eager to see October's Haunted Happenings began arriving.

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"Shutting down everything -- people need the services, and nobody's proving a point," one man said.

It's more of the same at the USS Constitution. The oldest commissioned warship sits silently in Charlestown as people from places like Nebraska react to Republicans and Democrats failing to reach a deal on funding the government.

"We showed up yesterday from Kansas City and we thought, oh we'll get in, and no, it was shut down," one woman said. The U.S. government officially shut down at midnight after Con

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